Ok, I know you’ve probably seen a lot of suggestions, so I’ll keep this simple I want to explain the problem I’m having. My Twitch name used to be StarLightVT, and people would speak to me as “Star.” I didn’t like that, because “Star” doesn’t really sound like a name. Something similar happened when my channel name was DiamondDilly — people called me “Diamond,” but I actually want to be called Dilly.

So here’s my idea: what if, when you enter your username on Twitch, you could also enter a nickname? At this point in streaming, a channel’s username feels more like a title, kind of like the name of a show — and most shows don’t use real names. Sure, some streamers go by their actual name or a name-like username, and that works for them. But for a lot of us it doesn't.

That’s why I think it would be really helpful if Twitch let us have a username and a small or greyed-out nickname next to it. That way, your username stays the same — like a brand or title — and your nickname is what people call you, like a character or persona. In this scenario, people would know my channel as StarLightVT, but they’d know me as Dilly.

I’m asking for this because I ended up changing my username to DillyStarGiggles just to get people to call me Dilly, but now I regret it. I really liked StarLightVT, and I don’t want someone else to wait a wile to change there username back. So I’m asking: would you please consider adding a nickname feature like this?